With a few swipes of his pen, Donald Trump began to reset the course of the nation’s energy policy away from Joe Biden’s green dream boondoggle and toward proven, practical, and reliable energy production.

Headlined by a repeat of his executive order during his first term, Trump once again withdrew the U.S. from the dubious Paris Climate Agreement. In signing his order before a crowd in Capital One Arena, Trump stated, “I’m immediately withdrawing from the unfair, one-sided Paris climate accord rip-off. The United States will not sabotage our own industries while China pollutes with impunity.”

The executive order reads in part, “In recent years, the United States has purported to join international agreements and initiatives that do not reflect our country’s values or our contributions to the pursuit of economic and environmental objectives. Moreover, these agreements steer American taxpayer dollars to countries that do not require or merit financial assistance in the interests of the American people.”

Exactly. The Paris climate accord has been little other than a thinly veiled excuse to shake down the American taxpayer with the untenable aim of stopping climate change.

So, Trump has reversed Biden, who reversed Trump, who reversed Barack Obama in 2017.

It was just one of several climate-related actions Trump took on his first day back in office. Inflation and higher energy costs were much more burdensome on Americans than the climate agreement, and much of this was due to Biden’s misguided energy and economic policies.

As Trump stated during his inaugural address:

The inflation crisis was caused by massive overspending and escalating energy prices, and that is why today, I will also declare a national energy emergency. We will drill, baby, drill.

America will be a manufacturing nation once again, and we have something that no other manufacturing nation will ever have: the largest amount of oil and gas of any country on Earth. And we are going to use it. We will bring prices down, fill our strategic reserves up again, right to the top, and export American energy all over the world.

We will be a rich nation again, and it is that liquid gold under our feet that will help to do it with my actions. Today, we will end the Green New Deal, and we will revoke the electric vehicle mandate, saving our auto industry and keeping my sacred pledge to our great American autoworkers.

After the speech, Trump issued orders reversing Biden’s recent offshore drilling ban, opening up more of Alaskan wilderness for fossil-fuel drilling; initiating the repeal of Biden’s auto-tailpipe emissions standards that effectively acted as a mandate for automakers to build electric vehicles; rolling back the Biden administration’s onerous home appliance energy efficiency standards; restarting reviews for new natural gas export terminals that Biden indefinitely paused; eliminating Biden’s ridiculous “environmental justice” programs across the federal government; and initiating a review of all federal programs that inflict an “undue burden” on energy development including fossil fuels, nuclear, and biofuels.

In other words, Trump wants an all-of-the-above, merit-based approach to American energy development, not one that elevates renewables above all others or incentives the government picking winners and losers based upon a dubious climate agenda.

Speaking of the environment, Trump also issued a moratorium on any new offshore wind farm construction. His order contends that the Biden administration rushed through approval of these massive offshore windmills before conclusive environmental impact studies had been done. That irony is of particular interest to those who have noted a troubling increase in whale deaths since other offshore wind farms have been constructed.

It’s also particularly interesting to communities on the Eastern Seaboard that have suffered increasing power bills thanks to Biden’s green energy boondoggle.

All of Trump’s actions are directed at reversing the damage from Biden’s Green New Deal. Finally, common sense is back, and submitting to nefarious ideological climate alarmism will no longer be the determining factor in how the nation moves forward with expanding energy production.

There is still a long way to go, but Trump’s first pointed and determined actions are welcome steps in the right direction.